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A varied career starting with service in Royal Air Force. Jazz Musician. Bookselling. Publishing. Expert on a specialised area of Chinese and Far Eastern artifacts. Writer. Journalist. Graphic designer and artist. Consultant for European Commission Projects. Webmaster. Prior to leaving England to live in Belgium was very active on the UK jazz scene, particularly so in the North West of England and Yorkshire. Also a sideman with the
Victor Brox Blues Train. Author of a number specialist books on China and several concerning more irreverent topics. Contributor to Radio Four and as it was at that time - The Third Programme. Continues to love and play all styles of jazz -Buddy Bolden to John Coltrane and onwards. |
Born in Salford. Childhood in the care of his Grandparents, their house
situated in Lower Broughton, Salford. Attended St. Clement's Infants School.
Grecian Street Junior School. Salford Royal Technical College. Studied Chinese
during the Seventies.